Improvement in wire fences



W. A} MIDDLETON. Wiye-Penoe.

No. 198J40. Patented Dec. 11, 187? WITNESSES I I INVENTOR NJETERSv PHDTO-LITMOGRAFHER WASHINGTON. D C.

U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

WILLIAM A. MIDDLETON, OF HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO 0. H. JACKSON, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN WIRE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,140, dated December 11, 1877 application filed October 11, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. MIDDLE- TON, of Harrisburg, in the county of Dauphin, and in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Fences 5 and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in using a toothed or serrated burr or plate with a barb-wire fence, for holding the wire to the posts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth. 7

.To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to derated. A bolt or screw passes through an opening at the center of the plate or burr, and

serves to bind the wire, which is caught be tween them and the posts, firmly to the posts.

It will be seen that the object of this invention is to secure each wire firmly to each post, so that every post will bear its due proportion of the strain.

This burr may be varied in its shape, or mode of clamping the wire, but still not change the invention.

Having. thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The serrated plates or burrs O G, with their bolts or screws, and the posts and barb wires, combined and clamped as is herein fully set forth.

have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of September, 1877.

WILLIAM A. MIDDLETON.

Witnesses:

H. J. STEWART, EUGENE SNYDER.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I 

